Canadian National Railway Co T.CNR

RE:RE:Share buybacks

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rad10 wrote:

ufoolme wrote: CN falls in with those companies who do not recognize their employees.  Share buybacks at CN for the first half of 2018 were just under $54,000 per employee. CN could have given each and every employee a $5000 bonus, and still been able to buy back $1.2 billion in stock.  This is why the Occupy Wall St and the 99% movements were created.  Everything is set up to benefit the rich.  Shameful.

The employees I know love the company and are proud to be associated with it.  Bonuses have to be earnt - the salary and benefits is absolutely great from what I hear.  Two of them only have a high school education but they are living comfortable middle class lifestyles with kids in hockey nice houses cars. One also gets stock and has been pleased with it.  What more do you want I'm going to respectfully disagree with this statement. Unless the employees you know work in management. The employees that make this company money live like zombies. And most will never understand what they go through to be a engineer or conductor. Say by to family life. Work life balance. All your friends that have a 8 to 4 day job. Being present at many of your kids sports or any event for that matter. Being home for dinner and eating on a regular schedule. Regular sleep patterns, totally forget that. Cn new retention rates are some of the worst in the country because of this. The money? Yes if you have 10 or more of seniority and can hold a steady position but if not your being shipped all over Canada to shortage terminals for a gauranteed minimum pay that most are to imbarassed to talk about and your living in run down hotels with a LOA allowance that barely feeds you. If you work the yard you'll be making 30.00 an hour. 2 generations of CN engineers went through my family, almost 3 but the 3rd thankfully left, Just over 67 years worth and this job is not the same job it once was. Yes the pension is fantastic, the benefits are good but it now ends there. The company now owns there employees and working on the rails isn't far from insanity now. If you perform 35 years as a engineer or conductor you have sacrificed about 10 years off the end of your life through eating habits. Sleep deprivation, and your kids will always know you as a dad that was rarely present. I interview allot of young kids that have CN and CP rail as a past employer, and of the last CN training course that was offered that I know about. 16 attended and after 2 years only 2 remain. Anyway I like the company to invest in because without it our country would come to a halt and I also like the fact there going to be hauling a mass amount of crude but let's never say working on the rails for CN or CP is a good job.